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nine for mitt romney. new hampshire is one of a handful of critical swing states where the polls showed the president with a consistent but razor thin lead among likely voters. >> looking ahead to tonight polls begin closing at 6:00 eastern in kentucky and indiana and we'll begin to see important results roll in after 7:00 when polls close in another half dozen states including the b battleground of virginia with 13 electoral votes up for grabs. it's a state president obama turned blue back in 2008 by a seven-point margin. >> the latest poll shows a statistical dead heat and the next batch of closings after 7:00, of course, happens at 7:30. among them two more key states of perhaps the most important ohio as well as north carolina. as we've heard a lot of times by now, no republican has ever won the white house without taking the buckeye state. >> so with us on set we have the moderator of "meet the press" david gregory, chief washington correspondent of cnbc and political writer for the "new york times",
nine for mitt romney. new hampshire is one of a handful of critical swing states where the polls showed the president with a consistent but razor thin lead among likely voters. >> looking ahead to tonight polls begin closing at 6:00 eastern in kentucky and indiana and we'll begin to see important results roll in after 7:00 when polls close in another half dozen states including the b battleground of virginia with 13 electoral votes up for grabs. it's a state president obama turned blue...
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, romney, romney. and then late the next night, i started looking at the tallies, state by state by state by state by state. and looking, as john cornyn said, and it was a great observation by senator cornyn, we didn't just lose in one wing. every wing of the republican party -- >> every region of the republican party. >> -- was battered. in every region it was battered. listen, bob dole wasn't the greatest candidate in 1996. and john mccain wasn't the greatest candidate in 2008. republicans still figured out how to win some senate seats that year. this year the republican brand was ravaged. and they paid for it whether they were moderates like tommy thompson, whether they were tea partiers, like the two whose names i never have to mention again, whether it was self-funding candidates like linda mcmahon, they all got slaughtered. >> big goose egg. >> their record in the dozen or so competitive senate races was as bad as mitt romney's was in the nine battleground states. i mean, they won about one or tw
, romney, romney. and then late the next night, i started looking at the tallies, state by state by state by state by state. and looking, as john cornyn said, and it was a great observation by senator cornyn, we didn't just lose in one wing. every wing of the republican party -- >> every region of the republican party. >> -- was battered. in every region it was battered. listen, bob dole wasn't the greatest candidate in 1996. and john mccain wasn't the greatest candidate in 2008....
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but the romney campaign never got to that. the other issue that ax thought really could have worked for romney is bipartisanship, to talk about how, as a republican governor and democratic state, he made it work. the romney campaign got to that late, probably too late. >> first debate. >> yeah, and mike, you also asked him what the biggest gift to the campaign was. was it the tape? was it the 47% tape? >> there was that, and he said they also made a terrible mistake at the end with that jeep commercial that we saw here on "morning joe" that had two automobile ceos coming out and calling romney who was supposed to be the business guy, the michigan native, calling him a liar basically. >> mike allen. >> that's not good. >> with a look at the "politico playbook." mike, thanks so much. >> at his age. >> for 102, he's good-looking. >> i tell you what. >> if i'm looking that good five or six years from now when i'm 102, i'll be happy. >> you know what it is? it's all that gingham pinafore. what is that? i don't know that what was. i
but the romney campaign never got to that. the other issue that ax thought really could have worked for romney is bipartisanship, to talk about how, as a republican governor and democratic state, he made it work. the romney campaign got to that late, probably too late. >> first debate. >> yeah, and mike, you also asked him what the biggest gift to the campaign was. was it the tape? was it the 47% tape? >> there was that, and he said they also made a terrible mistake at the end...
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to romney's credit, romney, i know, wanted massive immigration reform before he started running for president. they couldn't reach an agreement. so he then had to go into this primary process where he had to keep moving to the right on immigration and we see the results. >> and he ran away from it. four years ago -- four years ago i read a book right after the president got elected. i talked about tone. i said we need to be conservative. we need to be conservative on spending money, balancing the budget, fighting wars. we've got to show restraint. but i said we've also got to show restraint in our rhetoric. and it drove so many people crazy. they couldn't do it. so you're right. you want the reagan model. you want to be conservative ideologically, but want to be moderate temperamentally. there's also something important as well, and i can't bring it up enough. david frum calls it the conservative entertainment complex. there were so many times where we were in danger as a party, the primary process, i said it time and again, that it was killing our brand. one week you would have herman cain a
to romney's credit, romney, i know, wanted massive immigration reform before he started running for president. they couldn't reach an agreement. so he then had to go into this primary process where he had to keep moving to the right on immigration and we see the results. >> and he ran away from it. four years ago -- four years ago i read a book right after the president got elected. i talked about tone. i said we need to be conservative. we need to be conservative on spending money,...
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and of course, romney did worse with asian-americans than he did with latinos. and the reason was pretty simple. the obama message was after they get done deporting them, they're coming for you. so he literally did -- nobody's picked this up yet, but we used to carry the asian-american vote. we've managed in 12 years to totally throw it away. it's almost inconceivable we would do as badly as we did with latinos. the obama campaign began advertising on univision, i think in early may. and i said one-third of the republican effort should have been in the latino community. if you have a zone that's going to make or break you, you better figure out how to carry it or it'll break you. that was a significant part of where we are. and the republicans are going to have to come to grips with immigration. and how do you deal in a humane way with grandmothers? i deliberately use that imagery because it personifies -- you can't say to somebody i really would like to get your vote over jobs, by the way, we're kicking your grandmother out. it doesn't work. >> a bit of a mixed
and of course, romney did worse with asian-americans than he did with latinos. and the reason was pretty simple. the obama message was after they get done deporting them, they're coming for you. so he literally did -- nobody's picked this up yet, but we used to carry the asian-american vote. we've managed in 12 years to totally throw it away. it's almost inconceivable we would do as badly as we did with latinos. the obama campaign began advertising on univision, i think in early may. and i said...
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bush not out campaigning for mitt romney. but rather speaking at an investment conference in the cayman islands. organizers declined comment. tickets, $4,000 apiece. >> oh, my goodness. >> sir richard branson said to be there as well. >> there you go. "the charleston daily mail." west virginia still feeling impacts of sandy in the form of snow. in some counties, 80% of residents have no power. and in places three feet of snow cover the ground. this must be just unbelievable. forest crews and fema have been working around the clock with chain saws to carve up fallen trees but more are falling under wet, heavy snow. >> "the washington post," the ipad mini goes on sale. apple expects to sell 1 million this weekend. put that in perspective, apple sold 5 million units of the iphone 5 in september. almost two inches smaller than the full-size version, but 330 bucks more expensive than competitors' model. >> 200 in the first day just to halperin. >> halperin. he hoards apple products. he's a hoarder. >> you never know. >> mika, we s
bush not out campaigning for mitt romney. but rather speaking at an investment conference in the cayman islands. organizers declined comment. tickets, $4,000 apiece. >> oh, my goodness. >> sir richard branson said to be there as well. >> there you go. "the charleston daily mail." west virginia still feeling impacts of sandy in the form of snow. in some counties, 80% of residents have no power. and in places three feet of snow cover the ground. this must be just...
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i want romney -- i want to meet with romney and see can work together. that's the tone. >> that is the tone and i will say you look at the candidates who have)acÑ won and lost last nigh fact a lot of house republicans, john boehner being speaker again, i don't know that it's about ideology4 as idiocy. i love this quote. we're debating about whetheró the republican party should be the ve party or don't we just all agree that we stop being the stupid party. look at the fact we did in indiana with mourdock with we left two seats ong linda mcmahon chance chances to win. we have left, as steve schmidt, six, seven senate seats on the table. this is not about ideo this is about idiocy. we have got to figure out a way to vet ourer. is -- having been around this for a while. in '72 the democrats went through the same kind of process and again in '80 w '80 everyone talks about the reagan win but in the senate the alliance of the democratic party -- >> it was a slaughter. >> nelson george mcgovern, frank church. they all the party had to hey did so with bill cl
i want romney -- i want to meet with romney and see can work together. that's the tone. >> that is the tone and i will say you look at the candidates who have)acÑ won and lost last nigh fact a lot of house republicans, john boehner being speaker again, i don't know that it's about ideology4 as idiocy. i love this quote. we're debating about whetheró the republican party should be the ve party or don't we just all agree that we stop being the stupid party. look at the fact we did in...
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mitt romney back out there yesterday. mitt romney didn't even mention the president's name yesterday. i think perhaps he learned from his mistakes, if you believe they were mistakes after the attack in benghazi. >> yeah, i think, you know, clearly the campaign felt that it jumped in far too quickly in benghazi. and that was a move that they regretted. he was out yesterday in florida campaigning. there were attacks against barack obama's leadership style. and there were some references to fema and exactly the role of the federal government in emergencies. but i just think this quantifies -- i think it changes the race in the sense that it changes the tone of the last few days. and i do think that the president has managed whether it's just us inside the beltway that like the symbolism of barack obama and chris christie and chris christie's endorsement. actually the takeaway for people around the country who are all watching this closely. when i've spoken to people in texas, i've spoken to people in california, they're all
mitt romney back out there yesterday. mitt romney didn't even mention the president's name yesterday. i think perhaps he learned from his mistakes, if you believe they were mistakes after the attack in benghazi. >> yeah, i think, you know, clearly the campaign felt that it jumped in far too quickly in benghazi. and that was a move that they regretted. he was out yesterday in florida campaigning. there were attacks against barack obama's leadership style. and there were some references to...
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he did seem to many israelis to lean toward mitt romney, to lean toward adelson, mitt romney's biggest financial backer. you hear even on the center-right criticism of netanyahu for having done that. we'll see. is that criticism significant enough that netanyahu has real trouble and that he either isn't re-elected or is re-elected in a way that limits his ability to be very aggressive on foreign policy. >> richard. >> i think that's true. the last israeli prime minister to take on an american president and have the relationship pay a real price was shamir. and 20 years ago, he lost re-election. the problem right now -- the reality in israel is there's no rabin in the wings. so bibi netanyahu enjoys a first among unequals, if you will, standing in israeli politics. a broader point, we won't have the luxury and barack obama's not going to have the luxury of seeing this in isolation. he's got a raft of other issues in the middle east. he's also got the domestic thing we were talking about before. he's got this economic question which in some ways is the biggest national security challenge
he did seem to many israelis to lean toward mitt romney, to lean toward adelson, mitt romney's biggest financial backer. you hear even on the center-right criticism of netanyahu for having done that. we'll see. is that criticism significant enough that netanyahu has real trouble and that he either isn't re-elected or is re-elected in a way that limits his ability to be very aggressive on foreign policy. >> richard. >> i think that's true. the last israeli prime minister to take on...
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had which was reaching a fever pitch, that romney's got the momentum, romney can win, romney's pulling ahead, it all dissipated overnight. >> speaking of joe frazier, it was like frazier/ali. he won the first fight, and he lost the second and the third. i mean, in fact, in the third debate, mitt romney looked nervous, looked a little flush, and looked unsure of himself. >> and here's what else happened. in 2004, john kerry won the first debate, no question. >> no doubt. >> what also happened, bin laden came out with that tape. it reminded voters that no matter how well the framework had been constructed, george bush was responsible for iraq and therefore every problem america had, there were real problems. there were real threats. >> why do you think barack obama killed him? he didn't want a last-minute tape helping another republican. it's a joke, people! it's a joke! >> okay. >> it's a joke! >> the hurricane reminded people that president obama was not responsible for every problem. >> steve did make a point that there is a lot of separation and fatigue with the president, a lot of a
had which was reaching a fever pitch, that romney's got the momentum, romney can win, romney's pulling ahead, it all dissipated overnight. >> speaking of joe frazier, it was like frazier/ali. he won the first fight, and he lost the second and the third. i mean, in fact, in the third debate, mitt romney looked nervous, looked a little flush, and looked unsure of himself. >> and here's what else happened. in 2004, john kerry won the first debate, no question. >> no doubt....
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so will mitt romney. but the lack of leaders and ideas and mechanics of how to win elections, it's going to be ugly. and people like chris christie are going to have to deflect some of the incoming, but they're also going to have to step forward and say what kind of party are we going to be? how are we going to compete in states like -- forget losing the battleground counties for a minute in the battleground states. what about california? if part of you can't get 45% of the vote, much above 40% of the vote in california is not a party about the future. >> and blaming chris christie is exactly maybe what's wrong with the party. you tell me. he should step above it. but can he? >> i think there are a lot of republicans that need to fight back. and you look at this party, jon meacham, this party has lost 5 out of the last 6 elections when it comes to the popular vote. and they had a great victory two years ago, but the same thing happened in 1994. look historically, jon. 1992, bill clinton, a new democrat wi
so will mitt romney. but the lack of leaders and ideas and mechanics of how to win elections, it's going to be ugly. and people like chris christie are going to have to deflect some of the incoming, but they're also going to have to step forward and say what kind of party are we going to be? how are we going to compete in states like -- forget losing the battleground counties for a minute in the battleground states. what about california? if part of you can't get 45% of the vote, much above 40%...
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we heard mitt romney did and ann romney did. >> paul ryan. >> paul ryan did. did you believe on election day you were going to win? >> i thought between the end of the debates, the debate season and the onset of the storm, we had tremendous momentum. >> yeah. >> we saw it in our internal data, saw it in some of the external data, the public data and saw it on the ground. we would go to rallies, people standing in lines, thousand for hours. >> what happened? why was your internal data so flawed? why was it so wrong? >> i think a couple things. one, there is a -- some kind of systemic crisis today in the world of polling, i think on the right of center polling. the modeling was way off. how pollsters on the republican side -- although not just the republican side. gallup polling, rasmussen made similar mistakes. the understanding, the electorate looked like was way off. >> first of all, you know rasmussen is a republican poll. >> gallup? i'm not letting anyone off the hook. i'm saying there is -- look the republican establishment needs to do an audit and figure
we heard mitt romney did and ann romney did. >> paul ryan. >> paul ryan did. did you believe on election day you were going to win? >> i thought between the end of the debates, the debate season and the onset of the storm, we had tremendous momentum. >> yeah. >> we saw it in our internal data, saw it in some of the external data, the public data and saw it on the ground. we would go to rallies, people standing in lines, thousand for hours. >> what happened?...
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i think romney -- what mitt romney -- the problem for mitt romney is they had a theory of the race which is they needed to run against -- he was just going to be the none-obama and the unifying principle would be that obama was bad for business and he was a businessman and he would be good for business. i'm not talking about the whole question whether or not there were too many people dependent or taking unemployment but middle class people who want to work 9:00 to 5:00 whose 0 lives are centered not on what they do but on their families, their churches, their communities and saying to american capitalism doesn't speak to this specific -- >> that's great. but how do i get my third kid through college? >> or, like, okay, my problem is i don't have job mobility anymore. i have a job and my job is fine but i don't really have that many prospects for moving on to something else, for getting a big promotion, for getting a big raise. that's something that romney and the republican race in 2012 had not a word to say. >> look, one of the big -- you're talking about off years versus presidential
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. >> pretend president romney, ladies and gentlemen! >>> all right, we're not going to pretend about this. what have we learned today? peter, what have you learned? >> jewish jocks, 250 pages, it's not a pamphlet anymore. read all of it. brian, what have you learned? >> about to go to war with "the new york times." most read story, the most brutal restaurant review i've ever, ever read. >> and one of the funniest. >> eviscerated. >> i've learned so much trivia, i can't wait to get back to the office and share it with my colleagues. >>> i learned "people" magazine sexiest man alive, huge oversight here. what about willie and joe and not barnicle? >> i admit it. i learned even again, that the detroit story, the story of th
. >> pretend president romney, ladies and gentlemen! >>> all right, we're not going to pretend about this. what have we learned today? peter, what have you learned? >> jewish jocks, 250 pages, it's not a pamphlet anymore. read all of it. brian, what have you learned? >> about to go to war with "the new york times." most read story, the most brutal restaurant review i've ever, ever read. >> and one of the funniest. >> eviscerated. >> i've...
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and i will say in mitt romney's case -- >> yeah. >> -- mitt romney had 100 different sister soulja moments over the past three years he could have taken. when glen beck came out several years ago and called the president of the united states a racist who hated all white people, that would have been a great time -- and igsd said an the show -- to show he was distancing himself from the hate or extremism. >> or when he called that woman a slut. it would have cost mitt romney nothing to say something more forceful to rush at that moment and yet he refused to do that. it would have helped them. very weak. very weak. >> they make a couple of really big mistakes. one was that they thought the anti-obama hatred would drive enough people to the polls. there just weren't enough -- there wasn't enough hatred out there to turn out enough people, number one. number two, they thought the economy would trump everything else. and in the end, the economy was picking up just enough to push the president over 50 points and weaken that argument. and republicans will not have that argument in 2016. last mista
and i will say in mitt romney's case -- >> yeah. >> -- mitt romney had 100 different sister soulja moments over the past three years he could have taken. when glen beck came out several years ago and called the president of the united states a racist who hated all white people, that would have been a great time -- and igsd said an the show -- to show he was distancing himself from the hate or extremism. >> or when he called that woman a slut. it would have cost mitt romney...
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mitt romney spent six years doing that, it didn't work for him. if marco rubio's already thinking that way, already thinking about what the base wants to hear, he could be in trouble already four years out. >> billions and billions years old. >> and look at the language of the key interview. sounds very much like somebody searching for his words. i'm not a scientist, man, i can't tell you what the scientists think. i think parents should be able -- >> yeah. >> there's something about the language of this interview that sounds very hesitant. sounds like somebody who is trying to work out, what do i say not to get into trouble here? >> what's the correct answer? like 4 trillion years old. is that what scientists say? 80 trillion -- >> 4.5 billion. >> 4.5 billion years old based on -- >> you know what carl sagan would say -- >> i think it's like 4.5 billion. >> yeah. plus or minus. >> based on, again, willie, my teaching up at m.i.t. >> yeah, exactly. >> spreading the knowledge -- >> we've run the numbers. >> we have a computer -- >> with our bookky.
mitt romney spent six years doing that, it didn't work for him. if marco rubio's already thinking that way, already thinking about what the base wants to hear, he could be in trouble already four years out. >> billions and billions years old. >> and look at the language of the key interview. sounds very much like somebody searching for his words. i'm not a scientist, man, i can't tell you what the scientists think. i think parents should be able -- >> yeah. >> there's...
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they were in romney's 47%. they were the moochers. and they paid zero. the way to get at them is a minimum tax and it's very simple to do. and it only applies on incomes at a million above and another level of $10 million above. >> what's the minimum tax again? >> i would guess 30% on income above $1 million. 35% above $10 million and all kind of people making that money, you know, by labor, they're already paying those rates. >> would that also include people who -- >> it would hit me. >> it would hit you. >> it would hit me. >> so you would not be paying 14% because of capital gains? >> no. >> again, i don't understand this. i'm making pretty good money. i'm not making warren buffett money but a couple years ago a guy came to me and i'm paying my full 35% or whatever. you really need to figure out how to convert this to capital gains because if you do that you only have to pay 15%. what? i don't have the accountants to figure that out. >> that's not right. governor romney and i would have ended up instead of paying -- he paid 14%, i paid 16% or 17%, we
they were in romney's 47%. they were the moochers. and they paid zero. the way to get at them is a minimum tax and it's very simple to do. and it only applies on incomes at a million above and another level of $10 million above. >> what's the minimum tax again? >> i would guess 30% on income above $1 million. 35% above $10 million and all kind of people making that money, you know, by labor, they're already paying those rates. >> would that also include people who -- >>...
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that was a romney plan. he could absorb that. there's groundwork to be laid for him to say, look, this is how much i need in revenues. i don't care how we get there. that's a natural opening. so i guess my answer, john, i'm just not sure how much of that brinksmanship he wants to play. but i think what is certain is that he wants to very early define the terms of this debate, make it very public and say, this is the framework that is reasonable. this is what i'm putting forward, and not get into a situation where he then, after it fails, says, well, this is what i proposed, and let me leak all these documents. this is where we were. i think they want to be done with that and be very up front what they're prepared to do. >> what were you mumbling? >> he's always muttering one thing or the other. >> he cannot say, this is the number i need. you guys get there. he's got to, as jeffrey said, he's got to put out the framework himself. and remember, raising the top 2% doesn't get us where we need to go in revenue. we've got to do somet
that was a romney plan. he could absorb that. there's groundwork to be laid for him to say, look, this is how much i need in revenues. i don't care how we get there. that's a natural opening. so i guess my answer, john, i'm just not sure how much of that brinksmanship he wants to play. but i think what is certain is that he wants to very early define the terms of this debate, make it very public and say, this is the framework that is reasonable. this is what i'm putting forward, and not get...
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hey, romney, what's up, man? hey, isn't it funny? you almost lived here. this was almost your place. just 3 million votes, you know what i mean? oh, you worked so hard for seven years and you were just about to go in and then you said sorry [ bleep ]. >> joining us now from boston, the moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. as we take a live look at the white house. >> did you see this? >> oh. >> david gregory, the guy that found you out in the streets in l.a. playing stickball and took you in and said kid, you can be a star one day, jeff zucker, right here. hired at cnn. that's exciting for jeff, isn't it? >> it is. it's cool. >> absolutely. absolutely. he'll do good things. >> that's all he has to say. that's all he's got to say. >> i think we're all thrilled for jeff. >> okay. that's all he's got to say. >> wow! >> he's a company man. he's a company man. >> all right. >> no, you know, he doesn't want to upset phil. you know, buddy, you can't talk about, you can't say. >> phil gets upset. >> he gets upset. >> he gets really hurt. he gets emotional
hey, romney, what's up, man? hey, isn't it funny? you almost lived here. this was almost your place. just 3 million votes, you know what i mean? oh, you worked so hard for seven years and you were just about to go in and then you said sorry [ bleep ]. >> joining us now from boston, the moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. as we take a live look at the white house. >> did you see this? >> oh. >> david gregory, the guy that found you out in the streets...